Excitement Over New Laws Fails to Last in Washington
A Washington dispatch notes after McKinley’s assassination that proposed drastic anti anarchist and socialist laws faded without passage. Roosevelt doubted protective measures could stop a determined killer, and the piece laments Washington’s urban ugliness while noting small reforms like the removal of the White House stables and debates over income tax and direct Senate elections.
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Arrival of Style Fee in Waiting Limit
A brief note indicates the style fee arrived within the waiting limit. The wording suggests timing and acceptance of a fee or measure linked to a service or process, though specifics are unclear from the fragment.
Musical Mountains and Cliff Pipes Bent by Wind
From the San Francisco Chronicle account the Pyrenees and other regions produce wind carved notes through cross gullies. Natives fear and deem divine voices while geologic hollows act as organ pipes. Some cliffs are even nicknamed singers as wind shapes the sound.
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Early English Rat Catchers From Tudor to Georgian Times
The article notes one of the earliest official rat catchers Elizabeth Wickley dated 1072 in the Tower of London earning eight pounds per year. It discusses the office gaining prestige, including 1741 appointment of Mr Gower as rat killer to the king at £100 a year, and adds a family vignette about a child fretting over the largest cake at dessert and a light street joke about call money.
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Tower of London
Gentleman's Magazine
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